devel-announce May 2011

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Reminder: Fedora Engineering Steering Committee election town hall is today.
by Robyn Bergeron 31 May '11

31 May '11

Greetings! As previously announced, the town hall for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) is today, May 31, 2011. The town hall will be taking place at 1800 UTC (2pm US-Eastern). For information on how to participate, please see: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join Further information about the elections, including the schedule and process, can be seen here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections There are 5 seats open in this FESCo election, and 8 candidates. Please consider attending the town hall today, and bringing your questions to be asked of the nominees during the course of the town hall. A summary and the IRC log will be posted and linked from the wiki after the discussion, if you're unable to watch it live. FESCo candidates and their information can be seen here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations Cheers, Robyn

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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway 29 May '11

29 May '11

Here is this week's change to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- The systemd guidelines on naming unit files have been amended to tell packagers how to make compatibility symlinks for alternate service names should their service have had a different name in the past. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#Naming --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to the Fedora Community, and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure Thanks, ~spot

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Outage: Upgrades/Reboots - 2011-05-31 18:00 UTC
by Kevin Fenzi 25 May '11

25 May '11

Outage: Upgrades/Reboots - 2011-05-31 18:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 18:00 UTC on 2011-05-31, which will last approximately 2 hours. During this time there may be very short outages of services as machines are updated and rebooted into new kernels. Machines will be rebooted in an order that allows for least disruption to services. In many cases, there will be no noticeable downtime due to redundancy and fail-over. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2011-05-31 18:00 UTC' Reason for outage: System updates/Reboots. Affected Services: BFO - http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ Buildsystem - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/ GIT / Source Control DNS - ns1.fedoraproject.org, ns2.fedoraproject.org Docs - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ Email system Fedora Account System - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ Fedora Community - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/ Fedora Hosted - https://fedorahosted.org/ Fedora Insight - https://insight.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora People - http://fedorapeople.org/ Fedora Talk - http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ Main Website - http://fedoraproject.org/ Mirror List - https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/ Mirror Manager - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/ Package Database - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/ Smolt - http://smolts.org/ Spins - http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Start - http://start.fedoraproject.org/ Torrent - http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Wiki - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ Unaffected Services: Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2790 Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or add comments to the ticket for this outage above.

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FESCo and Board Election Questionnaires posted
by David Nalley 25 May '11

25 May '11

Hi folks: The responses to the questionnaire are now posted: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_elections_questionnaire Responses are divided by elected body and then appear in the order the responses arrived in my inbox. Please take a moment to look over them to better prepare yourselves for the upcoming elections. I'd also like to thank the nominees who took the time to answer the questions. Cheers, David Nalley

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FESCo TownHall Scheduling
by David Nalley 23 May '11

23 May '11

Hi folks, Just announcing that there'll be an IRC town hall with the FESCo election candidates on Tuesday May 31st, at 1800UTC (2pm US/Eastern.) You can join #fedora-townhall-public to ask questions of the moderators, which will be posed and answered by the candidates in #fedora-townhall. More information is available here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#How_to_Join A summary and the irc log will be posted and linked from the wiki after the discussion, if you're unable to watch it live. Thanks, David Nalley

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[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines
by Tom Callaway 18 May '11

18 May '11

Here are the latest changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: --- A section has been added to the SysVInitScript guidelines covering the optional situation where a package that uses systemd unit files as the default also includes sysv initscripts in a subpackage: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript#Initscripts_in_addi… --- The GIO scriptlets have been changed to not conditionalize the %post invocation. This works around a multilib issue. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#GIO_modules --- The guideline that prohibits Fedora packages from using /srv has been updated to better represent what the FHS has to say about /srv and to clarify the expectations for Fedora packages which may be configured to use /srv. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_Files_or_Directories… --- It was brought to the FPC's attention that while the new Guidelines covering MinGW packaging were technically correct, Fedora 16 did not yet contain the necessary toolchain to support the new Guidelines, nor was it clear that it would arrive in rawhide anytime soon. Accordingly, the "old" MinGW guidelines were put back in place at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW The "new" MinGW guidelines remain approved, but are not active and packagers should not use them at this time. If/when the necessary toolchain components are packaged in Fedora, these guidelines will be re-enabled. In addition, the current MinGW guidelines were improved slightly to support the "new" SRPM naming standard. This is intended to prevent new MinGW packages from having to be re-reviewed when the "new" MinGW guidelines take effect. --- These guidelines (and changes) were approved by the Fedora Packaging Committee (FPC). Many thanks to Kalev Lember, Matthew Miller, Michael Schwendt, and all of the members of the FPC, for assisting in drafting, refining, and passing these guidelines. As a reminder: The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are living documents! If you find something missing, incorrect, or in need of revision, you can suggest a draft change. The procedure for this is documented here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#GuidelineChangeProcedure Thanks, ~spot

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Fedora 15 Final Release is declared GOLD!
by Robyn Bergeron 18 May '11

18 May '11

At the Fedora 15 Final Go/No-Go meeting today, the Fedora 15 Final Release was declared GOLD and ready for release on May 24, 2011. Please note that the Fedora 15 Release Wide Readiness Meeting will take place on Thursday at 19:00 UTC (3 PM Eastern/ 12 PM Pacific) on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Readiness_Meetings Thanks to everyone for doing your part to get Fedora 15 out the door! :) ============================================== #fedora-meeting: Fedora 15 Go or No go Meeting http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting ============================================== Meeting started by rbergeron at 21:00:33 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-05-17/fedora_15_go_or_… . Meeting summary --------------- * Who's here? (rbergeron, 21:00:54) * Why are we here? (rbergeron, 21:02:11) * The purpose of this meeting is to decide whether the final release criteria have been met (rbergeron, 21:02:30) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Final_Release_Criteria (rbergeron, 21:02:50) * To Go, or Not to Go? That is the question. (rbergeron, 21:03:51) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers (rbergeron, 21:04:16) * the four proposed blockers are not blockers, per yesterday's QA meeting. (rbergeron, 21:07:04) * AGREED: We are technically blocker free. (rbergeron, 21:09:57) * Test Matrices (rbergeron, 21:10:13) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Final_RC3_Desktop (rbergeron, 21:10:48) * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_15_Final_RC3_Install (rbergeron, 21:11:10) * We will be composing a sugar live image late with some sugar-specific fixes pulled in. (rbergeron, 21:12:49) * Only desktop and KDE can block the release. (rbergeron, 21:13:03) * AGREED: Test matrices are acceptable for a go. (rbergeron, 21:13:45) * Rel-eng (rbergeron, 21:14:11) * FESCo/Devel (rbergeron, 21:15:14) * GOLD? (rbergeron, 21:16:31) * AGREED: Fedora 15 is declared gold. shipit! (rbergeron, 21:18:09) * open floor (rbergeron, 21:18:48) * Thanks to the systemd and gnome/desktop guys as both groups did a lot of work to get those large features working well. (rbergeron, 21:19:30) * and Thanks! to everyone else as well! (rbergeron, 21:19:36) * ACTION: rbergeron to send out GOLD email to the lists (rbergeron, 21:19:58) * Please note there is a readiness meeting on Thursday, email has been sent to logistics list as well as attendees needed to be present. (rbergeron, 21:20:21) Meeting ended at 21:22:46 UTC. Action Items ------------ * rbergeron to send out GOLD email to the lists Action Items, by person ----------------------- * rbergeron * rbergeron to send out GOLD email to the lists * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * rbergeron (58) * adamw (29) * dgilmore (8) * cwickert (6) * Viking-Ice_ (6) * brunowolff (5) * jsmith (4) * zodbot (3) * stickster (3) * nirik99 (3) * spot (3) * fenrus02 (2) * jlaska (2) * red_alert (1) * therefore (1) * athmane (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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IMPORTANT - Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Signing Window Is Open
by Tom Callaway 17 May '11

17 May '11

Please take a moment and read this brief email, as it is important. Fedora is in the process of retiring our old "Individual Contributor License Agreement" (also known as the ICLA or CLA) and replacing it with the new Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA). All Fedora contributors with accounts in the Fedora Account System (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts) who have agreed to the old CLA *MUST* agree to the new FPCA by June 17, 2011 to continue contributing to Fedora. Here is how you do this: 1) Login to the Fedora Account System: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts 2) Once logged in, click on the "My Account" link in the blue box on the left side of the window. 3) On the page that loads, you will see a section labeled "Account Details". Look for the line that says "Contributor Agreement". On that line, you should see a new section that says: "New CLA Not Signed - We need contributors to sign the new Contributor Agreement(Complete it now!)" Click on "Complete it now!" and follow the prompts. ***** It is important that Fedora Account holders who have signed the old Fedora CLA sign the new FPCA. We have allotted a window of one month for Fedora contributors to agree to the FPCA. This means that after June 17, 2011, any Fedora Contributors who have not agreed to the FPCA will have their "cla_done" flag set to False. This also means that any groups that they are in which are dependent upon "cla_done", such as "packager", "ambassador", and Fedora People access will be removed. There are a few accounts which are exempt from this, specifically, accounts which are members of the "cla_dell", "cla_intel", and "cla_redhat" groups. If you do not know what these groups are, you are probably not in them. :) Accounts in these groups will not see the "New CLA Not Signed" line on their "My Account" page, and do not need to take any action at this time. Please take a minute and login to FAS to agree to the terms of the FPCA, to avoid loss of access. More information about the FPCA, including the final FPCA text, can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Fedora_Project_Contributor_Agreement If you have any additional questions about the FPCA or the re-signing process, please feel free to email me directly at legal(a)fedoraproject.org. Thanks, Tom Callaway, Fedora Legal == Fedora Project

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Fedora 15 FINAL Go/No-Go Meeting, TUESDAY, May 17, 2011 @ 21:00 UTC (17:00 EDT/14:00 PDT)
by Robyn Bergeron 16 May '11

16 May '11

Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting for this important meeting, Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at 21:00 UTC (17:00 US-Eastern, 14:00 US-Pacific). "Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting." "Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team." For more details about this meeting see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting And while you wait, keep an eye on the current F15 final blockers, and help fill out the test result matrices: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_15_Final_RC_Test_Results See you there! (And my apologies for sending this out in a less-than-timely manner - I had it stuck in my head that this meeting was Wednesday.) -Robyn

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Change in requirements for Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo candidates
by Tom Callaway 16 May '11

16 May '11

There has been an amendment to the requirements for candidates to elected (and appointed) roles in Fedora's Community, including (but not limited to) the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee. Specifically, candidates must not be a citizen of an export-restricted country (see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Export#Embargoed_Destinations|Legal/Ex… for the list of export restricted countries). This requirement is applicable immediately, and will apply to candidates for this upcoming election as well. Unfortunately, the laws in the United States which Fedora and Red Hat are subject to place very tight restrictions on the involvement of citizens of certain countries. Fedora has made its position on this issue known here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Embargoed_nations Thank you for your understanding, Tom Callaway Fedora Legal

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